Is it just me, or is it really hard to get the right amount of accelerator when taking off or changing gears? I don't know if it is just taking me a while to get used the car (last car i drove was a 94 land cruiser), but I either have to take off flat out, or really slowly, otherwise it is not smooth. Also changing gears i find it really hard to get smooth as the throttle is not very linear. There is no median between not at all and a fair bit of throttle. It is really firm to press at first, but then it loosens up the further i depress it.... Is it just me?

Alan, Australia

 

I understand you completley, i' been driving my Z since early October and still not completly used to it, i spose give it a month and 2 and u'll get used to it...

maybe u can oil it down somewhere maybe.... not really sure

<font color=blue>76 260z</font color=blue>
The NiteRider

 

It's just you 8-). Nah My Z used to have a really hard to press accelerator but I found it was just the springs on the carbs that make it snap back when u release the accelerator. I think you just need to get used to the car because I used to be able to make my Z really smooth. I'm now driving a newer run around Corolla that's fuel injected and fwd and it's really touchy I find I like the Z's inline 6 motor and rwd setup much better in my opinion.

Gavin,
1973 Datsun -=240z=-
1975 Datsun -=260z=- (Totaled by WRX)

 

A'ha, you've discovered the lightning-fast throttle response of the early carbs with an L28 [img]/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/img]